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Brotherton Collection38
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english drama2
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english poetry1
epigrams, greek1
greek poetry1
hymns, greek (classical)1
nature1
wine in literature1

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Chapman, George (1559?-1634)10
Chapman, George5
Homer3
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)2
Chapman, Richard (1665?-1734)2
Chetwood, W R (1766)2
Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)2
Lee, Nathaniel (1653?-1692)2
Moliere2
Moliere (1622-1673)2

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Homer's Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke. By Geo. Chapman

Homer; Chapman, George (1559?-1634)

The first 12 books (A-Q in 6's, R in 8), printed by Field, were issued separately in [1614?]: and are here re-issued; books 13-24 (S-Hh in 6's, Ii in 8), printed by Jaggard, are here first issued. P...

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The tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury : as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's company of comedians

Savage, Richard (1743)

1724

On the verso of the last leaf are some advertisements of books printed for Samuel Chapman.

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Love in excess; or The fatal enquiry : a novel in three parts

Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)

1722

Parts 2 and 3 have separate undated title pages, with imprint "Printed for W. Chetwood, J. Woodman, D. Brown, and S. Chapman".

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Love in a sack : as it is now acted at the New-Theatre in Lincolns-Inn Fields

Griffin, Benjamin (1680-1740); Chapman, George (1559?-1634)

1715

Signatures: A⁶ B-C12. Based in part on Chapman's May day. Frontispiece included in pagination.

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The tragedie of Chabot Admirall Of France : As it was presented by her Majesties Servants, at the private House in Drury Lane

Chapman, George (1559?-1634); Shirley, James (1596-1666)

1639

Signatures: A-I⁴. Signature A3 misprinted B3. "Apparently a revision by Shirley of a play written by Chapman c. 1613" - Cambridge bibliography. Running title: The Admirall of France. The fir...

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Bussy D'Ambois : A tragedie: as it hath been often acted with great applause : being much corrected and amended by the author before his death

Chapman, George (1559?-1634)

1641

Title vignette. First issue of the second edition. Anon., by G. Chapman.

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An epicede or funerall song : on the most disastrous death, of the high-borne prince of men, Henry Prince of Wales, &c. With the funeralls, and representation of the herse of the same high and mighty prince;... VVhich noble prince deceased at St. Iames, the sixt day of Nouember, 1612. and was most princely interred the seuenth day of December following, within the Abbey of Westminster, in the eighteenth yeere of his age

Chapman, George (1559?-1634); Hole, William (1624); Taylor, John (1580-1653)

1612 [i.e. 1613]

Part 1 has A2 and E2 signed, although each gathering consists of two leaves only. Dedication signed: Geo: Chapman. Printer's name from STC. In two parts. Part 2, "The funerals of the high and mi...

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Marmor Norfolciense:, or, An essay on an ancient prophetical inscription, in monkish rhyme, lately discover'd near Lynn in Norfolk

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Walpole, Robert Earl of Orford (1676-1745)

1739

With half-title. Title page vignette. "A squib against Walpole."-- Dictionary of national biography.

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Memoirs of the life and writings of Ben. Jonson, Esq; poet laureat to King James the First, and King Charles the First. With an abstract of the lives of their favourites, Somerset and Buckingham. Collected from the writings of the most eminent historians, and interspersed with the pasquils of those times. To which are added, two comedies, (wrote by Ben. Jonson, &c. and not printed in his works) called The widow, and Eastward Hoe

Chetwood, W R (1766); Middleton, Thomas (1627); Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637); Chapman, George (1559?-1634); Marston, John (1575?-1634); Chetwood, William Rufus (fl.1720-d.1766)

1756

"The widow" is considered to be almost entirely the work of T. Middleton, with slight assistance from Jonson and Fletcher; "Eastward Hoe" was a collaboration by Jonson, G. Chapman and J. Marston. De...

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The adventures of Abdalla, son of Hanif, sent by the sultan of the Indies, to make a discovery of the island of Borico, where the fountain which restores past youth is supposed to be found. Also an account of the travels of Rouschen, a Persian lady, to the Topsy-Turvy island, undiscover'd to this day. The whole intermix'd with several curious and instructive histories

Bignon, Jean Paul (1662-1743); Hatchett, William (fl. 1730-1741)

1729

"Redding implies that Vathek was founded upon an anonymous pseud-orientalism... entitled, Abdallah, fils d'Hanif, which was translated into English from the French ... but a cursory comparison will at...

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An epistle from the Elector of Bavaria to the French King: after the battel of Ramillies

Clay, Stephen; Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)

1706

Anon., by Stephen Clay; traditionally ascribed to Matthew Prior. On Clay's authorship see Foxon; also R.W. Chapman's note in RES 1 (1925), p.92. First edition. A satire in verse on the alliance be...

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